Deputy, suspect wounded

The bank robbery suspect was inside, and the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force equipped with a battering ram stood at the front door.

An officer to one side drew his gun and another pounded on the door with his fist. No answer.

"Knock it in," one officer yelled, and the group burst through the door.

"They emerged about a minute later with a woman in a kimono-type wrap, and they were talking to her, and then they handcuffed her and took her to near a tree to the side, and they all went back in," neighbor Barbara Hesse said. "Then it was, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, five or six of them. It was so rapid."

The wanted man and a deputy had been shot. Approaching sirens wailed from every direction.

Holed up inside the bathroom of the West Ashley house Thursday morning was a suspect in the July 3 robbery at Wachovia bank on Rivers Avenue, the Charleston County Sheriff's Office said.

Terrell Lamont Mallard, 30, has a history of evading arrest and assaulting police, so a sheriff's deputy, four North Charleston police officers and a marshal were prepared, said Maj. John Clark of the Sheriff's Office.

"He was suspected of robbing a bank, so we're going to treat it as a high risk," Clark said. "We used his criminal history as a gauge."

Mallard had run into the bathroom and started firing through the door as officers approached, Sheriff Al Cannon said. A bullet struck the deputy's leg. North Charleston officers fired back, Police Chief Jon Zumalt said.

Authorities did not name the deputy but said he was expected to be released from a hospital late Thursday.

Mallard was shot multiple times and was seriously wounded, Clark said.

Mallard's mother, Vernell Mallard, said her son had surgery and is in critical condition.

"I just thank God he came through," she said.

Terrell Mallard, father of one young son, attended North Charleston High School and did tile work for a living, his mother said. She said he had been staying with a friend in West Ashley, though she wasn't sure if it was the home where the shooting took place.

Officers took a man and a woman who were in the house into custody for questioning. Terrell Mallard will be charged with entering a bank with the intent to steal, and he will face additional charges for the 11:30 a.m. shooting at the home on Tomoka Drive in the Westover neighborhood, Clark said.

The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating because the shooting involved officers.

Terrell Mallard has been convicted for manufacturing or distributing cocaine, possessing a stolen vehicle, possessing crack cocaine, assaulting a police officer while resisting arrest and two counts of failing to stop for blue lights, his record shows.